Nice pic also nice 3amp service breaker too....

heh! I hope they are providing more than 3 amp service to a whole house!!

based on the amount of rings that's on the breaker/fuse,, that line is supplying between 4200 to 5300 volts of electricity. The transformer thats found on most poles steps down the electric to 120/240v at a max of 600 amps. So a 3 amp fuse at 4200 volts is a lot of current if it was a wire feeding 12o volts... it would be 12600 watts or 105 amps!! That wire would not feed very far because the line would become resistive as the distance increases..

So the power company steps up the voltage to reduce the current on longer feed lines... but you still find transformers along the way to doost the voltage and amperage back up if its a really long line..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr.....r_distribution

yep, the real big long distance transmission line are super high voltage, not as much current as you say to mitigate resistive losses...I was in the mind set of the user, 120V 100 amp service at the panel so 3 amps just sounds funny just like a wall wart of say 3 amp but only 1 volt or 100kV at 1 microamp isn't much total Power, it's kinda fun to play all the various combinations of power, phase, current and potential one can use to achieve a need

worked on a pulsed power supply that provided 5kV at 1 kA ( for 150 microseconds at 10Hz arb waveform) pretty cool.

I would have loved to seen that!!

well, not much to see, it sat in a vat of dielectric oil and drove a magnet of a LINEAC that was in a big vacuum barrel which was in a big long underground tunnel ( and there were dozens of these supplies!)

he hee

Yay nice shot of my own species! I think she was looking at you like your some kind of yummy prey! :>

very likely! not the best shot, the AF locked on the pole rather than her, yet but her Majesty still carries the frame I hope she sticks around so I can try again and again.